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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 11 July 2008 04:52 pm |
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Okay, I have joined this website - oh about 5 times but never posted anything and kept getting deleted. I figured I would join this time and start a diary. So here goes.
My history - In August 2006, I was denied life insurance for my mortgage renewal due to a combination of things including - my weight and family medical history. I think it scared the #%@&! out of me and made me realize that I want to be there for my kids ( 14 and 13) and husband. The other was that my husbands uncle lost both legs to diabetes at age 57 after about 15 years of not paying attention to his diet while having diabetes. My thought was that I am only given one body and I need to take care of what I have before it is damaged beyond repair. My father died in 1989 at age 47 after years of smoking. When he died, he had emphysema, chronic bronchitis, Asthma, and diabetes. I spent my teenage years in and out the hospital watching him get sicker and sicker until there was not hope he would get better - he still smoked to the end.
By the time, my eye opener happened, I was 5'6" and 217lbs. Not terrible obese but I believe I was in the obese range. I had worked in a food lab and knew how to calculate the nutritional value of food and recipes and understood all those helpful websites out there and finally decided after trying to explain to my daughter's 12 year old friend how to eat healthy, it would be better to teach by example and started keeping a food diary. The first day I scared myself, when at 3:00pm in the afternoon, I was at 1800 cal. The challenge was on. Withing the first month, I had lost over ten lbs and was able to call our mortgage insurance company and reverse their initial decision and I kept going.
It has been almost 2 years and I am now at 172lbs but now my goal is 150lbs or less. I recently bought a Jillian Michael's 30 day shred program and have been doing that for about a week. I have convinced my 14 year old daughter who unfortunately picked up my nasty eating habits to exercise with me.
Wish me luck
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Maggie
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Posted: 13 July 2008 01:45 pm |
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Welcome:
You have been doing great and as someone who has had diabetes for several years. Know that it has to be taken care off. You do not say you have it but it is in your family. So glad you have taken charge of your health at an early age. The best of luck to you as you continue your journey downward.
Cheerio
Maggie
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personsmom
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Posted: 13 July 2008 05:53 pm |
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I too welcome you 
Congratulations on making the commitment to health and better choices. Our families have not given us the best gene pool. We have the tools to overcome that if we choose. You seem to have a great motivator, being an example and helping younger ones. I believe you've come to the right place for support.
Keep comming back
Lee
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 14 July 2008 04:35 pm |
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| I had a bad weekend for food intake - we were going golfing (walked nine holes - short course) on Friday evening with our kids and got hit by a sudden thunderstorm. The kids & husband voted on pizza hut to pass the time. I had planned on golfing and getting something healthy after golf and had a high protein granola bar before we left, so adding pizza to it didn't help. I did choose the thin crust pizza with grilled chicken, tomatoes and spinach but also had garlic bread and caesar salad. Saturday was no better but was spending shopping at a mall and ended with a walk. Sunday started healthy and I spent about 4 hours gardening and a 40 min walk but I ended the day off with chips - so I am back to healthy eating today. I haven't had an opportunity to do my Jillian DVD but did try to squeeze some activity in to make up for my poor eating. Most weekends aren't this bad. Tonight I get to hang drywall and/or cut my lawn.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 15 July 2008 01:23 pm |
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Remembered my little food diary today - here is a recap of my calorie intake for the weekend.
Friday 2430, Activities - 9 holes of golf
Saturday 2130, Activities, 40 min walk and 4 hours of shopping
Sunday 1990, Activities, 40 min walk and about 3 hrs vigorous garden - my forest will one day resemble a garden!
Monday 1577, Activities, 40 min walk, and 1/2 lawn mowing and 45 minutes raking pine cones and removing about 30 years of bird seed that had fallen in the grass
So, needless to say, yesterday was a better day. I finished off the day with popcorn which is definately better than chips but wish I had the willpower to have no carb snacks at night. I have to cleanse my body of all the junk and then my cravings will dissipate. No Jillain aerobics but at least my daughter did it while I was at work. It is a little difficult to do since they are renovating our rec room in the evenings and I don't feel like bouncing around while people are doing drywall. I will stick with walking and gardening till I can exercise in peace and without the stares of curosity.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 16 July 2008 02:01 pm |
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| Yesterday was a better day. My total calories for the day was 1474 and instead of ending my night with Popcorn or some other carb, I had a hardboiled egg. Didn't get to my aerobics but did manage to take a 20 minute bike ride. Tomorrow wil be a busy day as my family will be goin to Canada's Wonderland in Toronto and with the temp forecast for tomorrow 31 degrees ( 37 with humidity) I should be sweating buckets from all the walking. And we are taking a lunch rather than buying from the park. Wish me luck that I don't get heat stroke
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Pootchi
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Posted: 16 July 2008 02:08 pm |
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Hi bluebuggy!
I too love that Jillian 30 day shred dvd! I just need to kick myself to do it actually!
I too want to lose weight because there's a lot of bad health history in my family. We've changed our eating, we eat more healthy, dh and the kids don't complain, they love what I cook for them lately! So that's nice to have my family supporting me.
Good luck into your plans! Have a great day!
Pootchi
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 21 July 2008 12:33 pm |
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Haven't kept my food diary for the last couple of days. I haven't done too badly. We went to Canada's wonderland last thursday and I felt like I walked about 10 km. The only bad thing I had was a small vanilla bean frappacino. Friday I went golfing and behaved with my eating. Saturday, I was working from home and driving my kids all over the place. I didn't eat that badly thru the day but didn't have supper until about 9:00 pm at night and our choice was personal pan loaded nachos! Sunday, was okay, but between work and trying to recover from exhaustion and sleepless nights due to thunder storms and a scaredy cat dog that shakes like a leaf for what seems like hours, I now need a nap.
Hopefuly, I will squeeze in some walks or my shred dvd this week.
Last edited on 21 July 2008 12:34 pm by Bluebuggy
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 23 July 2008 12:42 pm |
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| Finally found my food diary this morning so I will start tracking it again. I didn't eat too poorly yesterday. My breakfast, lunch and snacks up to supper is usually 750-850 cal. and I had 2 Weight watchers tortillas with grilled chicken kebobs. A little pasta and a side salad. My only snacks for the night were little fat free / sugar free creamsicle pops. They have 50 calores. My exercise was walking the dogs approx 3 km to watch a baseball game and then racing back to beat the thunderstorm that was coming quickly.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 24 July 2008 05:01 pm |
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| okay, my diary is still in my purse but I have been making good food choices and not eating snacks at night - which has/is always my downfall. My only snack after supper last night was a 50 cal icecream/juice pop. Small enough to kill cravings and satisfy me at the same time. Supper was a baked porkchop with 1/2 cup of some noodles and green beans. Exercise was a brisk 20 minute walk, followed by an hour of mudding my rec room - tonight my exercise will sanding.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 28 July 2008 07:32 pm |
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| Not a horrible weekend for eating - not great but not quite as horrible as it could be. I didn't have supper Saturday night but managed to snack on mini ritz cheese sandwiches. I really shouldn't start eating them because once I start it seems like I can't stop. Life seems to be too busy for anything but running errands. I did manage to exercise to Jillian on Friday night, and could feel it in my legs and arms for most of Saturday. I haven't decided if I should walk tonight or exercise with Jilian. I am thinking with Jillian would be better. So we will see.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 8 August 2008 07:04 pm |
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Well I finally went for a check up at my doctors and I have lost 20 lbs since Oct 2007. I know I have lost an accumulated total of 50lbs but really haven't thought I had lost that much recently. I guess I was wrong. I guess when I stop to think about it, I have gained back and lost over the past 2 years but thankfully only a few lbs at a time. The last time I had my cholesterol checked it was 4.5 which was in late 2003. I am curious to see what it will be this time. For the first time I realized that the older I get, the worse it is too tell my family medical history. My BMI is 28.4 and hopefully I will get to 152lbs which will put my BMI under 25.0 - one day!!!!!!!!!!!! 24 lbs to go
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 19 August 2008 06:51 pm |
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I really have sucked lately for food intake. Don't know what the problem is, maybe just too many things going on in my life. I have tried to write down my food but end up stopping after a day or two. I have been really bad for eating since Friday and haven't been able to stop snacking. Could be worry. My friend was just diagnosed with Liver Cancer after surving breast cancer in 2002. She has 3 young kids and is like a big sister to me. I haven't been able to keep her far from my thoughts.
anyways, after a good day of eating, I ruined it @ 9:30 by splurging on choc snack cakes and popcorn. Hopefully I will be able to fix my eating cause I feel like #%@&! after eating so poorly since Friday.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 2 September 2008 12:40 pm |
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It has been awhile. I am almost finished renovating our rec room so hopefully life can get back to normal. I have promised my daughter that will will start Jillian's 30 day shred tonight! And I will resume my food diary - maybe I will post it so I don't feel guilty.
I have been either mudding drywall, sanding, reapplying mud or painting almost every spare moment since mid July and am thinking I should have hired someone. I don't have anything left today - not true, I still have to edge my ceiling one more time. And for the record, I will NEVER paint another room red - 5 coats of paint and it could still use a sixth - but I am done. Now it up to my husband to finish trim and move furniture.
Today's Grand Total was 1454 calLast edited on 3 September 2008 07:21 pm by Bluebuggy
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lastten
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Posted: 3 September 2008 02:53 am |
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Good luck on that 30day Shred. I recently bought it as well and it has whooped me! I only get around to doing maybe twice a week though so I am not shredded yet but I figure I will get there eventually.
I know how you feel on days where the numbers just don't add up to what you want. I have plenty of those days myself. I just have to remind myself that the next day I will do better and really stop and think before I eat something. I guess the main goal is to have more good days than bad and come up with any sort of shortage as possible.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 3 September 2008 07:25 pm |
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I did manage to Level 2 of Jillian's 30 day Shred. could't talk my daughter into it though. She had started high school and had to walk 3 flights of stairs multiple times to get to her locker. I wore my handy dandy heart rate monitor and got my heart rate up to 140, 146, and even a whoping 160.
Am not sure if I can squeeze it in tonight as I have a fund raising meeting for my friend.
So far I am at 854 cal but am having ribs from the slow cooker for supper which was 170 cal / 100g not incl. the med. garlic sauce so I will see if I can limit my serving size.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 4 September 2008 04:13 pm |
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Yesterday was an okay day, no time for exercise as my fundraising meeting ended at 9:30 and I was exhausted. Only ate a small serving of ribs so I did okay, calorie wise. Total day was 1629. I has 2 small pieces 1" x 2"of a turnover which I had estimated 150 calories - might be low, might not be. I hate eating at other peoples houses - can't go looking thru their things for nutritional labels.
Should be able to exercise tonight so we will see.
Ended the Day with 1384 cal - resisted homemade choc chip cookies and stopping at the store with the chip and popcorn isles. Didn't get the exercise in - maybe tomorrow
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 8 September 2008 01:20 pm |
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I forgot my diary at home. I think I ended Friday at about 1700 cal. My kids picked supper and it was Chicken nuggets and pasta. The good news is that I am finally finished our rec room. Worked on it Friday night, and on Saturday finished painting the trim and last light coat of paint. Then I moved 2 couches, 1 lazy boy, 1 chair down to the basement. But it survived the first football sunday and I didn't have to listen to all the men's burps, farts or any other screams with each pass or touchdown!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah me!
The bad news, I decided to paint my living room / Dining room since my new furniture doesn't come until Wednesday (hopefully). So Jillian's shred is put away again until Thursday at least.
Saturday, wasn't horrible for eating except we went for supper for our 17th wedding anniversay and I had creme brulee for dessert and one expensive dessert coffee. Sunday, I made chix pot pie with lots of veggies and light cream instead of the personal pan nachos that everyone else had. I knibbled on my daughters leftovers instead of having my own.
Back to food diary today
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 6 October 2008 01:13 pm |
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I am amazed at how busy life is. When ever I say I am going to do my food diary, I start and then something happens and I forget it. The good thing is that I am still at 175lb without the diary. The bad news is I am still at 175lbs. . My fundraising efforts for my friend have paid off and they will have their vacation, plus enough left over for a few other needed things. Her holistic treatment is keeping her spirits up and she feels amazing considering that the doctors have told her she has only 10 months left to live. The holistic doctor says she will survive and I will believe that version instead. Anyways, my life is back to normal and I have actually had time to myself so yesterday I went on a 2.5 km walk in approx 40min with 2 dogs. I thought I did well until the lady I work with say she walks 4km in 30mins. 
My next goal is to get my daughter out with me.
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StuckSara
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Posted: 7 October 2008 04:19 am |
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| Hey, well atleat you're back now! And it was only a month after. Usually when I drop my food diary I take about 6 months and 15 lbs to get back! And calorie wise I don't think it really matters how quickly you walk the distance, as long as you walk it, so just keep up the good work!
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 7 October 2008 04:05 pm |
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I went for another walk yesterday, not quite as long cause my daughter and husband went with me plus, my shins hurt like crazy. Not a good thing to walk 2.5 km in slip on Vans. Last night, I wore my nikes.
Now my only problem is to correct my nightly eating habits. The men from Football sunday always bring chips and there always seems to be left overs. So last night I snacked on chips which kind of defeated the purpose of the walk.
Tonight will be better.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 8 October 2008 06:22 pm |
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I didn't eat horribly last night, 1 night down a few more to go to break my cycle. I went for 1/2 walk and only had one slice of Weight Watcher Bread with maybe 2 tbsp of chicken salad with light mayo. 100 times better than chips. Today it is rainy so maybe no walk tonight
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 4 December 2008 03:49 pm |
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| After a few months away, I have FINALLY started my diary again - 4 days so far, so good. I had been down to 170 and got back up to 180. Thankfully I am back to 176, only a few more to go to get back to 170 and then I can go for the 150 mark. I have discovered if I read a book, I do not exercise. My book is almost finished and I am planning to read no others so we will see how the exercise goes.
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BJD74
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Posted: 4 December 2008 04:02 pm |
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welcome back! its hard to get back on track but you started in a good way with a walk and watching what you eat. I ate cold pasta yesterday just before dinner and then took my daughter who is 3 with me for a walk and we did jogging spurts for 20 minutes...i told myself i was undoing the damage of that cold pasta that i ate. So, for real dinner, I ate a hard boiled egg with water. Then, about an hour later, I had a few handfulls of honeycombs and iced tea, and THEN...later I actually had a bowl of honey nut cheerios that i wolfed down then shamedly turned over to my husband who took them away from me. I proceeded to eat #%@&! the rest of the nite, because i was stressed and failed to plan and eat something healthy.
we make mistakes, whether it be snacking before dinner and ruining the nite, or taking a walk in the wrong shoes and wishing we hadnt! Bottom line, its one day at a time, sometimes 1 minute at a time that we have to choose, decide, make a move on whether we want to be healthy.
one day at a time, walk, eat, breathe, smile, laugh....we are only human and we are all in this together. :)
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 5 December 2008 01:31 pm |
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| I seem to lose track so badly of what I eat unless I write it down. If I stop, I do well for awhile and then climb further and further up the ladder on my daily intake. I sometimes hate writing it down but know at the end of the day what I can snack on. I thank God when my husband eats the leftovers before I have a chance to get seconds. Which is stupid but I love to eat. I did well yesterday - no exercise but no bad snacks. My night time snack before bed was 2 hard boiled eggs. I think my calories for the day was about 1300-1400 cause I forgot my book at home. At work it is easy, my lunch is packed with lots that I don't seem to find the time to eat. Plus I only seem to eat when I am hungry at work. Lets see what the weekend brings - tonight is a fundraiser which I plan to bring my crystal light packages cause I refuse to waste my calories on Alcohol and tomorrow is an all day volleyball tournament for my daughter. And I stocked up on spearmint gum to chew to help with my cravings.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 8 December 2008 05:57 pm |
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| Okay - my weekend sucked - I couldn't resist the mini cinimon rolls at our Silet Auction but only had 2. Saturday started okay but my family decided on Pizza hut Buffet, which totally screwed with my cravings. I ended Saturday with Choc chips cookies and popcorn. I don't think my total calories count would have been over 2200 calories but it feels like #%@&! to do so well for the week and end on such a bad note. Sunday wasn't so bad, I finished my day at 1600 calories. Today is a new day.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 9 December 2008 04:37 pm |
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| Yesterday wan an okay day, I ended the day with 1535 calories, and played an hour of indoor beach volleyball. Good news is that my excuse for not exercising is not applicable anymore i.e. my book series I was reading is finished. So I will see if I exercise tonight and maybe I can talk my daughter into it.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 10 December 2008 01:01 pm |
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| Yesterday, my calorie total was approx. 1200. No exercise - still feeling pain from the beach volleyball. Ended my day with popcorn instead of chips so that was okay.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 11 December 2008 12:32 pm |
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Mark it on the calendar, I actually exercised last night. We took our dogs for a 40min walk in -6 C. Brrrr. My day ended okay with 1350 calories. The only thing I didn't count was 5 mini tootsie pop's I have no idea how many calories one has but need to find out. Tonight is Roast chicken and baked potatoes. Probably no exercise because we have choir and usually visit my Mom after.
Weight 176 lbs.
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 12 December 2008 07:25 pm |
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Dec 1 – 1405 calories, Weight 180 lb
Dec 2 – 1175 Calories
Dec 3 - 1296 Calories
Dec 4 – 1215 Calories
Dec 5 – 1360 + 6 perogies, some cheese, 2 little cinnamon rolls, cracker and pepper Jelly, & 2 little pieces of pizza - couldn’t resist at the Fund raiser
Dec 6– not even worth writing down – all it says is “horrible day” which I would assume is at least 2200 calories + ?
Dec 7 – 1586 calories – getting better
Dec 8 - 1455 calories+ 1 hour beach volleyball (indoor)
Dec 9 – 1145 calories
Dec 10 – 1465 calories + 40 minute walk with 2 dogs who were racing each other
Dec 11 – 1430 calories – 176 lbs
Dec 12 – so far 720 calories no supper yet
I remembered to bring my diary to work!!
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 19 December 2008 02:14 pm |
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Dec 13 – 1491 calories
Dec 14 – 1430 Calories
Dec 15 – 1265 Calories – My daughter started a gluten free diet which seems to have reduced my calorie intake as well. No store bought pasta mixes or rice side dishes with extra calories.
Dec 16 – 1229 Calories
Dec 17 - 1400 - I never thought Brown rice pasta would taste good! Also had a piece of Birthday cake for my nephew
Dec 18 – 1145 calories – 174 lbs
Suprisingly, my daughters stomach aches in one week have lessoned after switching to GlutenFree. Hopefully, it helps and is something she can stick with. This week will be a test. Today is an office seminar and someone has already brought 2 dozen donuts, we have a sandwich tray, dessert tray and veggie tray coming later, followed by the company christmas dinner. Sunday is also another christmas dinner, followed by 2 next week. So we will see if I maintain my 6 lb loss for december or get sidetracked.
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Posted: 19 December 2008 03:16 pm |
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| I hope you stay strong at all the office parties! We had ours yesterday and I sampled everything but I still think it was too much, I had a tummy ache afterwards. But soon it will all be over and a new start is on the horizon!
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 22 December 2008 02:41 pm |
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Okay I didn't do well at my company christmas party - but I wasn't actually horrible. I think I ended up at around 2200 calories + 1 vodka. I estimated the supper but I think I did okay. I chose the salad with a vinagrette, risotta and chicken with fresh veggies. Dessert was the only really bad thing with was chocolate truflle cake - almost too much chocolate if that could be possible.
Saturday, I was around 1750 calories which was pushed up by a choice of McDonalds for supper. We had company come and they stayed later than expected so timing was an issue. I obviously could have chosen better than a Double Qtr Pound but by 5:00 had only had oatmeal and was absolutely starving. I should have stuck to my wraps but C'est la vie.
Sunday was another Christmas party for family and friends and by supper I just gave up. I had been snacking on someone's homemade PB cookies and ended the supper with cheesecake and 1/12 piece of apple pie. I never calculated it and lost count of the number of cookies I ate.
Today is a new day .... At least until the next party on Christmas Eve. I will still try to behave and chew stupid gum before I get there and will possibly hit my husband if he says, "just have willpower" one more time!!!!
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 29 December 2008 01:17 pm |
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Christmas was good and so were the treats!! I didn't track my calories from the 24th til the 28th. I figured I deserved a holiday. Today I will start again and keep it healthy. I also didn't weigh myself on Thursday so I will see how close I am to 174 on Thursday. I think I will be a couple pounds higher.
I did manage to use my eliptical for a few minutes on boxing day, took my dog for a walk on Christmas day, and went for a walk last night plus played with the wii fit.
Today is a new day!
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Posted: 30 December 2008 01:13 am |
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| Hello, Blue, and welcome back. I am new here myself. We are similar in size and weight goals, so hopefully we can get there together (I am 5'7" and started @ 179 last Friday). I have the Jillian Michaels 30 day Shred DVD that you mentioned in your earlier posts. Did you ever get to use it much? It is killer and I cannot bring myself to go through that torture most of the time haha... it is one of my least-used DVD's. What do you think of it?
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 30 December 2008 12:51 pm |
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Yesterday was an okay day for eating. Ended the day around 1560 calories but snacked too much at night on popcorn. I got to remember to get a piece of gum instead. I used my eliptical for 20 minutes and attempted to ski jump on the wii fit but just ended up as a big rolly polly snow ball - needless to say, the Wii told me to work on my balance.
Am still paying in muscle pains from sit ups and planks so maybe tonight I will do more and try to fit more cardio in. As for my Jillian Shred DVD. I love it just haven't had much opportunity to use it. The DVD player was stolen by my youngest daughter so she could watch movies. So if I want to use it, I have to go unhook a DVD player and I am thinking I just will buy another cheap DVD Player. It worked well. I didn't like level 1 but preferred level 2. I noticed a difference in a few weeks and it was very good at providing both cardio and strength training. I am okay at fitting my cardio in but needed to add the strength training.
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mj36
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Posted: 31 December 2008 02:49 am |
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| I did the Jillian DVD religiously for almost 30 days and totally saw results. I too hated the level 1 and found level two to be a better place to start. That being said, did you ever try level 3? Because once I was ready to move on, it seemed like she jumped ahead 20 miles between 2 and 3! I do plan to drag mine out again soon, when I am feeling brave enough!
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 31 December 2008 12:44 pm |
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Yesterday wasn't a great day for eating! I did great until I got home for supper and decided to have seconds - Rice pasta, ground beef ( fat drained), tomato soup and cheese. After that, that stupid tray of sugar coated peanuts was just staring at me as well as the bowl of rosebuds - I detest people who give high calorie snacks as a christmas present - How about a fruit basket????? (No I wasn't talking to you MOM, your one little box was good, it was the other people that brought the junk.
I think my estimated calories for the day was around 1800 calories. Also did 22 minutes on my eliptical and 15 minutes on Wii Fit - incl. snowball ski jump, hulahoop, yoga poses.
My goal for tonight - since it is new years and we are going to the movies - is to a have a small popcorn and nothing else. tomorrow is usually movie and chip day. I still have a couple of christmas pounds to loose so I am hoping we including my husband and kids will be good for snacking.
As for Jillian, I haven't tried level 3 but really do want to get a cheap dvd player so I can start again. I would rather bounce in my basement than in my front room infront of big picture windows LOL. As for my body shape, I carry my weight well, meaning it is spread out everywhere. I have a butt and thighs where most of my problem weight seems to be. Interestingly enough, I have my measurements from when I was 20 years old and was a size 7. So I have something to try to reach, whether it is possible to reach is a different story but close would be good. The biggest I ever got in my hips is from 38" at age 20 to 47 when I first started in 2006. My thighs were 21" at one time and reached a high of 28". My waist was 26" then to 39". Now, my hips are 42", thighs 25", waist 32".
I think once the weather warms up, I think I will buy new runners and try jogging once again. It is much nicer to be outside than inside.
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mj36
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Posted: 31 December 2008 10:25 pm |
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I did a gluten free diet for a while to rule out a sensitivity to gluten. Anyway, I loved the rice pasta and had forgotten about it til now, thanks for reminding me! It is much lower in cals than regular pasta.
Good luck at the movies. I cannot go to the movies without feeling like I have to eat THE WHOLE TIME. I don't know what that's all about, maybe the smell of buttered popcorn piped into every corner!!!?
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Bluebuggy
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Posted: 5 January 2009 12:36 pm |
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I am soooo happy to be back to work and a normal routine. My eating was sooo out of control, I felt horrible. Most days I tracked it ended up anywhere between 1500 and 1700. The day's I didn't track it.... I have no idea. It is soo hard at home not to snack. I made healthier choices with the exception of sunday cause the football watchers brought ohh 6 bags of chips. I did okay until they had all left and the 1/2 eaten bags of chips were still there, so I splurged and had some plain lays with light sour cream. Yum, until I went to bed and laid their for about an hour with gut rot.
I know that my snacking is in no way as bad as it used to be i.e I had a tangerine instead of crackers or dried fruit but why on earth can I not go for a day and not give into the urges!!!!!!!! I am hoping or rather praying that my routine at work with fix things that went drastically haywire through out the holidays. The week before christmas I had been 174. this morning I was 178, so I will see on Thursday were I am.
I will say my poor oven took a beating yesterday but the 10 personal panzarotti's that everyone made turned out amazing - except for the stupid smoke alarm going off
As for exercise, it is on a positive note. I have completed Day 4 of Jillian's 30 day shred DVD, and am not doing too bad. Day 2 and Day 3 were very very painful but I love the feeling of being able to feel my muscles again. Also, that silly little Wii fit has turned out to be amazing. While I cannot entice my family to actually exercise, give them a game where they get points for exercising, you cannot get them off of it. My daughter has logged 5 hours of wii fit in, plus 20 minutes on my eliptical - woo hoo. I got to admit, it is very fun. My daughter and I had a race on the island run - which is about 10 minutes of jogging with the wii controllers. Everytime, she would get ahead of me, I would slow down then sprint to catch up to her, and one of our characters would go flying #%@&! over tea kettle. I have never laughed soo hard running LOL
Today is a new day !
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Posted: 6 January 2009 12:23 am |
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What kind of calorie level are you trying to stay at? When I first went on a diet, I was 234 lbs and tried to keep it at about 1400, and cut it to 1200 as I lost weight. This was totally unsustainable and not even enough to operate given the exercise I was doing, or so the dietician kindly explained. I aim for about 1500-1700 each day, but that is with about 1 hour of exercise each day. I am going to try to get it closer to the 1500 once I am in a better routine.
I cannot bring myself to do the Jillian Shred DVD these days haha, but got the new Biggest Losers boot camp DVD in the mail today and did that. It is with Bob, and it was intense but doable.
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Posted: 6 January 2009 12:31 pm |
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I am trying to keep my calories around 1500 sometimes, I am lucky and finish the day with 1300 ( not often) most days it is around 1400-1600. To me a bad day is 1700+. Even though I have bad days, I know they always could be worse. My biggest downfall has always been chips and sour cream. I have had them twice since Dec 1 and one time it was only a small handfull - Sunday night's chip was a 1/3 of a big bag - to go along with home panzarottis - the crust alone was 840 calories - but I guess this binge with tide me over for awhile. I am very happy to be back in the routine of work which helps control my snacking.
Exercise last night was level one from Jillian - which I do not think I will do - Too many jumping jacks. And yes anyone can do jumping jacks but I do not like feeling like I am going to pee my pants from them - so I will stick to level 2. Having 2 kids, jumping jacks do not work for me. My daughter tried it last night but still doesn't like it so I don't think I will ask her again. If she doesnt' enjoy it, it isn't worth it. She would much prefer the Wii Fit or even my eliptical. I can't quite explain to her about keeping her heart rate up to enduce fat burning. The circuit training from Jillian is good.\
Ended the night with 20 minutes on the eliptical.
Tonight - wooo hooo - Biggest Loser is back!!!!!!
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Posted: 7 January 2009 12:55 am |
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Yeah, I much preferred level II of the Jillian DVD. The friend who originally recommended it to me just asked today if I have done it lately... hmmm, since it keeps coming up, I'd better at least work it into my routine maybe once a week!
I think being back at work will help with my routine too. I am watching Biggest Loser too, and checking the site during commercials hehe. I find it very motivating to watch people in much worse shape than me try so very hard and put in so much effort... makes me think what am I waiting for here?
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Posted: 7 January 2009 11:59 am |
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Today I am working from but have yet to do any work except get my things out. My kids are yelling at me that it is snowing and they are hoping for a snow day or me to give them a ride to school. My youngest has to go to ortho to remove her wires cause she is having 4 teeth removed next week. Tonight she has singing lessons. My dogs are barking cause they want some treats. I am thinking I will not get lots of work done.
Last night was a good day for eating. After supper I was only at 1125 for calories and decided to snack on a clementine and left over pork roast. I am trying desperately not to snack on empty carbs before bed. It was satisfying and was much easier than making hard boiled eggs. On the positive note, my kids (13&14) have let me make their lunches since going back to school and they now are eating as healthy as I am. No more dry Mr. Noodles! or french fries in the cafe.
I did Jillian's 30 day shred, level 2 and have now completed day 7. I will have to see when I can fit it in tonight and tomorrow. I watched biggest looser and felt so bad for some of the new cast. They are soo large. It is so sad to see, yet at the same time, it is a big fear that one day that might be me if I don't keep watching what I eat and exercising. I am posting on facebook that I am doing Jillian's 30 day, my cousin who I worry about ( her weight is not good for her, her husband and now her oldest daughter) asked me what book I was reading. I told her what it was so you never know maybe she will go buy it.
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Posted: 7 January 2009 05:47 pm |
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That would be cool if your cousin was motivated to work on her weight loss too. I have a friend that I always try to motivate. I invite her on nightly walks, serve healthy snacks, etc. I keep hoping one day she will get really motivated so we can work out together, etc.
Doesn't sound like you will get much work done! My 14 year old son has a snow day today, me too actually since I work in a school. So far, I have cooked him lunch, helped him with a school project, and worked on a guest list for our friend's daughter's sweet 16... kids keep you busy, right?
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Posted: 8 January 2009 12:41 pm |
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Yesterday I managed to squeeze in 5 1/2 hrs work, 1 trip to the ortho, 1 trip to the drug store, helping with supper, 1 trip to Tim Hortons (decaf coffee w milk & sweet), 1 trip to singing lessons and almost 20 minutes of Jillian's Level 3 30 day shred. BUT I am going back to level 2. I can do level 2 almost comfortable and it gets my heart rate higher. Level 3 seems to depend on more muscles than I have and I have to do modified parts which doesn't put my heart rate up there. I might add a few things but some of it just about killed me i.e the from the plank on your hands and then dropping to your elbows and back up to your hands. My arm muscles wouldn't support me and I really don't want to hurt myself. The walk out plank is hard enough in level 2. The jumping plie really made my inner thighs work though, so I might add that.
Calories was really good, my written down number was around 1200 but didn't include a partial serving of peanuts cause I forgot to look at the label and it was shared between me and my kids.
Weigh this morning was 176lbs - only 6 more to get to 170, then 160, then 150 - better than 220!
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Posted: 9 January 2009 01:05 am |
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| 6 more til 170, totally doable! I have 7 more as of last week's weigh-in and I am hopeful tomorrow's weigh-in will knock another lb or two off of that! I like level 2 of that workout the best too. It makes good sense to do the one that gets your heartrate pumping the most. I really wish I could pick parts of each like a menu!
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Posted: 9 January 2009 12:35 pm |
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Last night was really good for calories and I was soo stuffed. But of course I forgot my food diary at home. I think I was at 1200 and then had an apple w PB for a snack. Yeahhhh still no junk carb snacks before bed i.e. popcorn. I would rather keep my energy stores low before bed so my sleep can burn fat!
I had my ususal work day menu which is:
Oatmeal w/ Frz Fruit, No Sugar Maple Syrop 185 cal
Snack was a High Protein Soya Rice Berry Bar 170 cal
Sandwich - 2 slice of Weight Watcher Bread, LF Mayo, LF cheese, ham 245 cal
snack 1/2 stalk celery 3 Big Cal
Snack Cottage Cheese / Strawberries 110 Cal
Supper was 200g microwaved potatoes with Spices and LF Margerine
150 g Boilled Cabbage
120g Steamed Broccoli
135 g Roast Beef No Gravy
Ended with 1 apple w/ 1tbs LF PB
Lots and Lots of Food to stuffed to move but my Thursday night Choir was cancelled and I managed to fit in a Jillian 30 day Level 2 but added the full sit ups from Level 3 and Scissor lifts(?) and the sumo squats all from level 3. Sumo Squats are definately working my inner thighs.
tonight is a test. We are going to a hockey game and have to get take out from McDonalds so I will be online looking for something safe calorie wise - last time I blew it with my binge of a dbl Qtr Pd w/ Cheese and French Fries. Not this time! Also have to manage to sit thru a hockeygame GO LONDON KNIGHTS!!!!!!! without snacking on alll the concession treats - maybe just one treat and there will be no exercise today either!!!
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Posted: 9 January 2009 10:46 pm |
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| Good luck making it through the hockey game without snacking on too much junk. You are doing so well, you should think of that when you get the urge to splurge... and I should be telling myself the same thing haha! That's a good idea to just add parts of level 3 to level 2, I might have to try that when I get back to the fitness level where I can keep up with Jillian~ Oh, and McD's has lots of great options, like their salads w/ grilled chickens, and the yogurt parfait... problem is, nothing tastes as yummy as the fries haha. Hope you found something to enjoy~
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Posted: 11 January 2009 02:51 pm |
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The hockey game was good. Me being the sports fanatic that I am I managed to see 4 out of 7 goals. Mind you 2 of them my daughter decided to ask me a question so only the first was missed by me completely. The only snack I had was a sandwich bag of popcorn and I ate 8 of my daughters jolly ranchers. Yesteday we made gluten free carrot cake which actually turned out really good. I didn't weigh or measure any of my foods so had to estimate my daily calories. I thought Idid really bad but it only turned out to about 1700 calories. We made Smack a roni ( WW rice pasta, white sauce with 1% milk, Light Cheese, Tky bacon, chix breast). The cake I estimated at 200 calories per square. I ended the night with 1 serving of nachos.
The only exercise I had was shovelling the double drive with really light snow. No Jillian on Friday or Saturday but have started off today with Jillian. Iwill skip the pizza and we are having stir fry with extra veggies and chicken,
My weight on the wii fit saturday was 174lbs whoo hoooo
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